05/15/2018:
MILLENNIAL FEVER LAFF RIOT: Let's say you're a college-educated Millennial looking for a state to settle down, work and play, and maybe even raise your kids in.
Surely at the top of your list would be a state where:
The government is openly hostile to education and the educated;
It took a federal mandate to enforce the legality of gay marriage;
The GOP (which holds nearly all positions of power) has no interest in legalizing or even decriminalizing marijuana;
The governor is a college dropout who is incapable of speaking in coherent sentences (but who has still managed to sell the state to the Koch brothers and other "conservative special interests");
The state's abundant natural resources are being flagrantly sold off, undermined, or pissed away;
The governor and his Republican minions want to charge a special fee to owners of electric or hybrid vehicles;
The people keep electing these clowns or, more likely, elections are rigged so that the GOP can't lose;
The state government has made abundantly clear that they serve only their donors and can't be bothered to talk to anyone else.
Millennial with freshly-minted college degree: "Gosh. Where do I sign up?"
What's even worse is that Governor Scott Walker (see above, or below) is by most accounts his own brain trust, or lack thereof. So how is he going to remedy what is obviously a hopeless situation?
Spend millions of taxpayer dollars on ad campaigns begging Millennials to move here!*
You can't make this stuff up.
It's kinda like our spiffy new 7-character license plates. Despite the lame DMV explanations to the contrary, anyone who knows anything about math knows that you don't "run out" of three-letter, three-number combinations in a state with 5.5 million people. And if you think you might, you mix up letters and numbers in your six characters (like Missouri does). No, this is yet another pathetic Scott Walker election-year gambit to "prove" that our state is growing (when actually the opposite is true, as might be expected after 8 years of GOP strangulation and our abuse as a Koch Brothers test laboratory).
Moral of the story: If you keep dumbing down the population by driving out the educated, moving laws back to the 1950s, and thinking that having seven-character license plates makes you look like you're successful, you shouldn't waste taxpayer dollars to convince smart young people to move to your state. Because they ain't gonna.
*So they can work at all our $10/hr-if-you're-lucky jobs!
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